Wednesday, July 27, 2016

This morning Dane Rauschenberg was two miles into a 5.25
mile run in Portland when a woman playing bagpipes on a unicycle stopped him.He thought she was going to ask him to help
catch a Pokemon, but instead she gave him the once over.

“She was like, ‘Not for nothing, but you need new shorts.
Your penis is really sagging and if you keep on running, the muscle fibers in
your threecylindrical-shapedmasses of erectiletissue
will break down and your penisis
going to sag even more,’” Dane told RunningTimes by Skype. “And then she tells me
how it’s going to head even further south than it is now and bruise my knees.
My jaw dropped. I was completely caught off guard.”

“She acted like by her seeing my fantastic penis, I ruined
her whole day,” Dane said. “If it really bothered her that much, she could have
just looked away. But no, she came and confronted me, like she wanted an
erection, I mean a reaction, from me.”

He told her all of his Jog Straps were in the
laundry, and then continued on with his run, fuming. He called a friend, who
advised him to go back and get her number. Instead, he used his anger to fuel
the remainder of his run, which he ran faster than usual.But his usual isn’t that fast anyway so it wasn’t
too hard.

Rauschenberg doesn’t like to exercise at all if everyone
isn’t fully aware of every step, and during one of his breaks for a red light, he
spent 14 red lights crafting the perfect response on Facebook, saying what he
wished he could have said to the woman directly.You know, if he was witty and she actually
existed.

He posted on his own page, then onto twitter, liked it to
Instagram and snapchattting it to LinkedIn, liking it on three other profiles
he maintains to creating further buzz about this runs, hoping to get lots of
attention. His phone quickly lit up, as he started receiving the admiration he
sorely needed from strangers all over the world. The post had gone viral.

“I’ve gotten a lot of personal stories from people. This one
guy, the first day after I posted it, he told me how he too struggled with an
enormous penis and how he struggles with different insecurities with his body
and how after I posted that, it helped him see himself in a new light,” Rauschenberg
said. “Granted the largeness of his penis continued to block out some of that
lights but that’s exactly what I was
going for. I wanted people to see their self worth and their beauty even if
their penis was only moderately sized (like 8 inches or so.) The fact that I was able to get even more
people to go to my blog and increase my searches on google, my mission was
accomplished.”

Rauschenberg took up running not long after starting law
school. During his first year, his doctor advised him that running is one of
the best ways to get in shape, that it will greatly fulfill his life, and if
done intelligently, even 100 milers might be possible.The doctor then said, “Now don’t go quoting
me years later as having said that running will kill you and give you cancer!We doctors sure hate it when you confuse us
with the Food Babe!”However, Dane heard
what he wanted and thinking that running could cure all, tried to out eat his
exercise.

After law school, Rauschenberg realized he wasn’t seventeen
anymore and in order to lose the weight he wanted, and race at the times which
would please him, he began to follow common sense and his doctor’s actual
advice. He realized that while not all body types are the same, not everyone
automatically has to like all body types. It was like he realized people can
have preferences!He has now completed
over 150 marathons and counting.

Having developed a large penis relatively early in life, Rauschenberg
said that he was then very self-conscious about it.

“[This] brought up past feelings, especially the moment she
pointed out its enormity through my shorts,” Rauschenberg said. “But it doesn’t
bother me because I’m at the age now where I do accept myself and I love
myself. I’m not going to let [something like this] ruin my day.I mean, I will let it ruin my run, make me
stop to post about it, tell everyone who is listening about the length and
girth of my penis, and seek validation from strangers, but other than that I am
unaffected. ”

At press, Rauschenberg was remembering to tuck his penis
into his waistband when he runs in that part of Portland.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

This really doesn't have anything to do with running but it got too long to be posted anywhere else. Plus, this is my page so I can do whatever I want here. Thanks for reading.

A nice Facebook friend posted an "article" about Obama and his "accomplishments." (I am not posting their name because they are simple going to represent a problem and I am not trying to mock them specifically.) This is a pretty typical thing which makes the rounds and contains some info about someone that the person doesn't like. Often people don't take two seconds to even check if it is real (e.g., I hate Trump but I know he never said to People magazine in 1987 that he would run as a GOP b/c the GOP is dumb.) So, I pointed this out to the person. We had the following exchange with some of that person's friends chiming in.

If you haven't seen the John Oliver segment about Newt Gingrich and the proliferation of "feelings" and "thoughts" having the same footing as facts watch here. --->

Why am I tying these two together? Because this shit is SCARY. You can see how people (of all beliefs, political parties, etc.) can somehow make a fact equal to what they think. Facts are unaffected by your thoughts. But somehow, either it is more prevalent, or more in our face because of social media, we are seeing more and more where people are equating things which do not equate.

* Ken Ham, he of the biblical literalism stating the Earth is 6,000 years old, doesn't deserve to "debate" anyone of scientific merit. His opposition doesn't mean he has equal standing.

* Jenny McCarthy doesn't get to tell us autism is caused by vaccination because:1. it doesn't; 2. she has nothing of value to contribute to the conversation.

I see this false equivalency and know that trying to debunk it makes you look like a jerk, or you get brushed aside for being a know-it-all. (One case in point was when I said I wouldn't ever run a race put on by Mitch Harper - a Race Director now known for pulling the flag and then the arm of Code Pink Protestor, Medea Benjamin. I was asked why wouldn't run those races and I said I don't supporter batterers. When asked where the battery happened I pointed it out (11 seconds into this video.) I was then told I must be a member of the media because only they use the word "battery" and then dismissed by another pedantic nonsensical commenter. You know, because I know the meaning of words. Hey look, I did include something about running!)

But it isn't OK to continue to spread false information. Or be willingly ignorant. Maybe when your ramblings were confined to the beauty parlor or the local bar it was at least palatable but when you choose to ignore facts, ignore the truth, and blatantly have zero regard for the aftermath which comes from your actions, you get Donald Trump.

And from the man who actually wrote The Art of The Deal who “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” Sure, that is his belief but it is one based on facts.